A CLINICAL STUDY OF SOME IMPORTANT PROBLEMS IN THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

Lee, Chan Sae

doi:1964.0.18.41

Tuberc Respir Dis > Issue 18; 1964 > Article

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1964;18:41-70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1964.18.1.41 Published online December 1, 1964.

A CLINICAL STUDY OF SOME IMPORTANT PROBLEMS IN THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

Chan Sae Lee^1,2

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea
²Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic Medical College, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

The treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis has achieved a great epoch since the discovery of active anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy such as streptomycin, Isoniazid. Para-Aminosalicylic Acid etc. and the progress of pulmonary surgery in recent years. However it is still impossible to say that the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis has been completed and there are many points left open to be studied for further improvement, such as doses and duration, resistance development, acetylation inactive conversion problem, side effect of surgery so on. Among those the author has mad a following studies to improve the results of the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.